When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.

I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.

Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair.

O last regret, regret can die!

Often when we ask for advice, we don't really want advice-we want someone to say "That's great! Go for it!"

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.

Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.

The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good.